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Appendix A
Biographic Information on
Committee Members
DUNCAN PATTEN (CHAIR) is professor emeritus of botany and past director of the
Center for Environmental Studies at Arizona State University. He is also research
professor with the Mountain Research Center at Montana State University. Dr. Patten
has an AB from Amherst College, an MS from the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst, and a PhD from Duke University. His research interests include arid and
mountain ecosystems, especially ecological processes of western riparian and wetland
ecosystems. He has been senior scientist of the Bureau of Reclamation's Glen Canyon
environmental studies, overseeing the research program that evaluates the effects of
operations of Glen Canyon Dam. Dr. Patten also served as business manager for the
Ecological Society of America for 16 years and is president of the Society of Wetland
Scientists. At the National Research Council, he has been a member of the Commis-
sion on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources, the Board on Environmental
Studies and Toxicology, and numerous committees.
OM P. GANDHI is professor and chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering
at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. He is author or coauthor of book chapters
and journal articles on electromagnetic dosimetry, microwave tubes, and solid-state
devices; editor of Biological Elects and Medical Applications of Electromagnetic
Energy (Prentice-Hall, 1990~; and coeditor of Electromagnetic Biointeraction (Plenum
Press, 1989~. Dr. Gandhi was elected a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 1979 and received the Distinguished Research Award
from the University of Utah for 1979-1980. He has been president of the
Bioelectromagnetics Society (1992-1993), cochairman of the IEEE SCC 28.IV Sub-
committee on RF Safety Standards (1988-present), and chairman of the IEEE Commit
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tee on Man and Radiation (1980-1982~. In 1995, he received the d'Arsonval Medal
of the Bioelectromagnetics Society for pioneering contributions to the field.
THOMAS GETFY is associate professor at the Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) and the
Department of Zoology, Michigan State University. He is a principal investigator in
the National Science Foundation Research Training Group: Linking Levels of Ecologi-
cal Organization at KBS. He teaches ecology, behavior, and mathematical modeling
and does research on how animals adapt to variation and uncertainty in their environ-
ments. He has a BS in engineering and a PhD in biology from the University of
Michigan.
WHELM E. GORDON is a consulting engineer in wireless communication and remote
sensing. During the first half of his academic career (1948-1966), at Cornell Univer-
sity, he conceived, supervised the design and construction of, and directed the early
operation of the Arecibo Observatory, which has a 300-m spherical antenna. At Rice
University (1966-1986), he served as a professor of space science and electrical engi-
neering, as dean of sciences and engineering, as provost and as vice president; he is
now a distinguished professor emeritus. He is a member of the National Academy of
Sciences (and was foreign secretary in 1986-1990), a member of the National Acad-
emy of Engineering, a foreign associate of the Engineering Academy of Japan, and
a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, and the Institute
of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. He was vice president of the International
Council of Scientific Unions (1988-1993) and is an honorary president of the Interna-
tional Union of Radio Science. He received the Balth van der Pol Gold Medal in
1966, the Arctowski Gold Medal in 1984, a USSR Academy of Sciences Medal in
1985 for distinguished contributions in international geophysical programs, and the
Centennial Medal of the University of Sofia in 1988.
J. WOODLAND HASTINGS is Paul C. Mangelsdorf Professor of Natural Sciences in the
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University. He was previ-
ously on the faculty at the University of Illinois, Urbana and Northwestern University,
Evanston, and a visiting professor at Rockefeller University. His research is con-
cerned with cellular and biochemical mechanisms of biologic oscillations, particularly
circadian rhythms. He is also an authority on the biochemistry and physiology of
bioluminescence in organisms ranging from bacteria to vertebrates. He served as
chairman of the 1976 National Research Council Committee on Biologic Effects of
Electric and Magnetic Fields Associated with Proposed Project Seafarer. A graduate
of Swarthmore College, Dr. Hastings obtained a PhD in biology from Princeton
University.
PETER KARE:~VA is professor in the Department of Zoology, University of Washington
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in Seattle. He obtained a BS from Duke University, an MS from the University of
California, Irvine, and a PhD in ecology and evolution from Cornell University. He
has been a member of the Ecological Society of America and the Entomological
Society of America. His research interests include population biology of herbivorous
insects, mathematical models of insect dispersal, and the influence of vegetation
texture on herbivore dynamics.
JAMES C. LIN is professor of electrical engineering, bioengineering, physiology and
biophysics at the University of Illinois, Chicago, where he also served as head of the
Department of Bioengineering in 1980-1992. He chairs the National Council on
Radiation Protection and Measurements, the Scientific Committee on Biological Ef-
fects and Exposure Criteria for Radio Frequency Fields, and the US National Commit-
tee for Radio Science, Commission on Electromagnetics in Biology and Medicine.
Dr. Lin holds a research chair from the National Science Council. He was president
of the Bioelectromagnetics Society, chairman of the Institute of Electrical and Elec-
tronics Engineers (IEEE) Committee on Man and Radiation, and president of the
Chinese American Academic and Professional Association. He is a Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute for
Medical and Biological Engineering, and IEEE. He has published over 100 papers
in refereed journals and contributed to 15 book chapters. He has written two books
and edited two books. He received a BS (1966), an MS (1968), and a PhD (1971) in
electrical engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle.
ROBERT G. OLSEN is professor of electrical engineering and computer science at
Washington State University. He has held positions with Westinghouse Georesearch
Laboratory, GTE Laboratories, and ASEA Research Laboratory in Sweden. He has
been a member of the Technical Committee of the Washington State EMF Task Force
and chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Power Engi-
neering Society AC Fields Working Group. He is now chair of the IEEE Power
Engineering Society Corona Effects Working Group and an associate editor of the
IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility. He is a fellow of the IEEE.
He received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University in 1968 and an
MS and a PhD from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1970 and 1974, respec-
tively.
JOHN PASTOR is professor of biology and senior research associate at the Department
of Biology and the Natural Resources Research Institute, University of Minnesota,
Duluth. In addition, he is adjunct professor in the Department of Ecology and Behav-
ioral Biology, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis and the Department of Fisheries
and Wildlife, University of Minnesota-St. Paul. He received a BS in geology from
the University of Pennsylvania, and an MS in soil science and a PhD in forestry and
soil science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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BEVERLY J. RATHCKE is associate professor in the Department of Biology at the
University of Michigan. She received a BA from Gustavus Adolphus College, an
MSc from the University of London, and a PhD from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. She was a Fulbright fellow at the University of London, and a
NATO post-doctoral fellow at the University College of North Wales and has held
research positions at Brown University and Cornell University. She was an editor for
the Ecological Society of America. Her research interests are community ecology and
plant-animal interactions.
ANroNlo SASTRE is Principal Scientist at the Health Assessment and Research Center
at the Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City, Missouri. He has been on the
full-time faculty at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in physiology
(1977-1988) and neuroscience (1980-1986) at the Assistant and Associate Professor
level. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor of Pharmacology at the Cornell Univer-
sity Medical College (1979-19964. Dr. Sastre received his B.A. in 1970, an M.S. in
1973 and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 1974 from Cornell University. His areas
of research include systemic and cellular pharmacology, cardiovascular physiology and
neurobiology; membrane and receptor biophysics; digital processing and modeling of
bioelectric signals; bioelectromagnetics research on in viva responses of human sub-
jects and biophysical modeling of cell responses.
LAWRENCE A. SHEPP is a mathematician who has been at Bell Laboratories for 34
years and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of
Medicine. He is now teaching at Columbia University in the Departments of Statistics
and Operations Research. He has extensive engineering experience in computed axial
tomography scanning and magnetic-resonance imaging.
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